Heh, what a difference a weekend makes! There I was on Friday happily submitting my latest article to Article Base then went back there this morning to correct a typo which I noticed while re-reading my latest article only to find it was gone …
Article Base Before
Article Base Now
Go figure! Guess I needn’t worry about that typo after all, heh!
And now its showing as a server error, mmm, is Article Base about to be pulled, makes you wonder.
I loved Twitter for its simplicity, its ease of use to communicate, its way of bringing instant friend referrals straight to my desktop (I did use Twitter Fox) then it got bloated and some executive or two never made the call not to keep-up with the data outage. Then Twitter died … almost daily, and my usage of the service curled up and withered with it.
However, before I could suck my last Twitteresque breath, some micro-blogging-evangelist leant before myself and began to chant “plurk, Plurk, PlurK, PLURK …” then my world greyed and became finally focussed on a headless something, I think it’s a pig but that debate is still open for argument.
I’ve been reading a great thriller recently – it’s an old n’ dusty Stephen King thriller from the mid-90’s – but it wasn’t the fearful imagery that the thriller writer in question managed to raise my buns from the couch but the written words contained within certain passages of text that we are all interconnected by “hidden cables” that got me edgy and then some.
So what do I mean by “hidden cables”? We’ll to take a quick insight of my thinking I want to draw on a few heatable discussions that have taken centre stage this year in the search world. Please, be aware that I’m not mud-raking, merely using examples to illustrate my point.
The first and most famous was Lyndon’s global link bait that not only split your sides with laughing at the sheer absurdity of it all but also split a community into groups decrying each other in a scale unknown to the search community before or since. Many undercurrent thoughts went to play on this escapade myself included. So, looking back what made myself pick-up Lyndon’s torch and help fight his corner, go public with my thoughts, cut social media ties that will strain to be the same again.
I thought I had recently run across a unique glitchz in StumbleUpon that could really harm the traffic you receive from your submissions. Thinking my theory was somewhat outlandish after talking to a on-line friend on Gtalk I decided it was best to take it to a person who knew a lot more about how the StumbleUpon algorithym works than myself : Tim Nash!
In my somewhat excited state I pinged Tim and stated that there is a process that I had termed as ‘Ghost Submissions’ that could negatetively kill your traffic no matter how many thumbs-up or reviews you would receive. Tim in his polite manner, kindly pointed myself to one his earlier posts – StumbleUpon Graveyard.
First things first, let me say that although I am an SEO guy I love social media to bits and have been involved with various sm sites for some time now. This post has been sitting on my to do list and at last I have found time to rank my top ten favourite social media sites.
I know there are a lot more out there that I haven’t added, so it would be good to see similar lists growing and perhaps we can gather a universal poll of our favourite social media sites.
Imagine you are about to launch a new website. You have viewed and critiqued the search engine results pages for your niche and feel that your site has a credible chance of breaching those top positions and soon enough will be driving traffic, leads and sales straight to your door. It’s not that hard to imagine - I see it all the time.
Then I ask, “What you considering for online marketing?” The caught-in-the-headlights stare says it all, this wasn’t in the business plan. This is when the fear kicks in.
Some weeks back I allowed Google to share my little ol’ SEO website traffic data via Google Analytics and allow it to be used in their pet Benchmarking project. Over the last few days I have noticed that finally I can compare my site against sites of a similar size (although how they define size is something I would like them to expand on) and see if our site is punching above its weight or are we truly that weak that we find it difficult to punch our way out of a wet paper bag?
I read somewhere recently that most SEO / Internet Marketers are all frustrated unpublished writers. I’m not sure about the ‘frustrated’ part but I’ll agree 100% on the ‘unpublished’ bit.
In this week we saw yet again how masterful Mr wall is in supplying yet another free tool to the SEO community. Free Firefox Rank Checker is a neat tool that checks and stores your keyword positions on Google, Yahoo and MSN. The tool also has feature to check Google International datacentres so you can set it to go and look up your website on Google.co.uk to the top 200 positions.
This is a question that has been eating at me for over a week now. Do SEO companies that offer SEO services via PPC sponsored results nothing more than hypocrites to their profession? The reason why I am even asking the question is that I see more SEO companies use this route. It was once the view that running sponsored ads against an organic service was considered laughable but is that the case now – have perceptions changed? In fact have the lines between organic SEO and Internet Marketing become so blurred that is hard to determine where one starts and the other ends.
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